"We need to find the way home."

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Grammatically the way you offered is correct, but Russians simply wouldn't usually say "найти путь домой". Your variant sounds more like "we need to find the way (solution, variant) how to get home" than "find the way (road, street basically) that leads to home". "Дорога домой" is almost a phraseologism. The difference is just a shadow of the meaning, so if you say to a Russian that you need "найти путь домой", you would be understood :)

"Нужны" is in the plural tense. If you want to use it with another verb, you would conjugate it as neuter, which would be "нужно". "Надо" is the word for "need" that is usually used with other verbs, and "нужна, нужен, нужно, и нужны" are used to express the necessity for things, objects, etc.